From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 8 17:23:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7A916A41B for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B3113C4EE for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay11.apple.com (relay11.apple.com [17.128.113.48]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD0C1D6635A; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:23:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay11.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay11.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 74ADC28086; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:23:06 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807130-a3499bb000000889-85-4783b17a0713 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay11.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 52E0028082; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:23:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: From: Chuck Swiger To: Konrad Heuer In-Reply-To: <20080108075717.A99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:23:05 -0800 References: <20080103073138.G99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <872A6988-2C89-4AF1-99E6-57B744C799CB@mac.com> <20080108075717.A99137@gwdu60.gwdg.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSX NFS-Server && FreeBSD NFS Client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:23:07 -0000 On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: >> You really don't want to export a filesystem which itself is being >> mounted remotely. If you want to provide SMB filesharing for these >> files, run Samba on the OS X machine(s) directly. > > Knowing all the drawbacks including reduced bandwith, there are some > important organizational reasons, thus I want to do so. Moreover, > Samba ist just one application on the NFS clients, although an > important one. While I certainly wish you the best of luck, previous experience suggests that the drawbacks to this approach include not functioning properly. NFS is a stateless protocol, except insofar as rpc.lockd in theory provides lockf/flock style locking over the network-- yet Samba/CIFS wants to allow extensive use of client side opportunistic locking, which means that Samba really, really wants to run off of a local filesystem. -- -Chuck